Drawing on case studies from optometrists, physiotherapists, pedorthists and allied health assistants, this book offers an innovative comparison... Læs mere
Building on the recent initiative to truly globalise the field of International Relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism.
In this comprehensive account, Janice Morphet analyses the role and use of outsourcing within the UK public sector since the mid-1970s and illustrates the impact it has had on ideology, policy narratives and public expectations in the present.
In this pioneering work, expert scholars offer new thinking on proactivity by examining how emotion can drive employees' proactivity in the workplace and how, in turn, that proactivity can shape one's emotional experiences.
First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this critical and practical volume challenges policy theory scholars to change the way they produce... Læs mere
This book examines how interprofessional collaboration and service user participation are challenged... Læs mere
This book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.
This book is the first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas which... Læs mere
Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the 'imposter' through empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists, providing insights into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge.
Identifying continuity and variety in crisis-driven austerity restructuring across Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain, this important book uncovers how austerity can be... Læs mere
Phil Allmendinger takes a critical approach to the role of 'smart' in future cities and the relationship with city development.... Læs mere
Addressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity,... Læs mere